HEXUS.net - Business

Semiconductor industry revenue declines for 2008

12 December 2008, 10:19

Preliminary results from Gartner predict a year-on-year decline of over four percent.

0

Acer overtakes ASUS in netbook market

9 December 2008, 16:17

ASUS beaten at its own game in Q3 as Acer grabs nearly two fifths of the global netbook market.

2

HEXUS.sharewatch: mixed fortunes for distributors

8 December 2008, 07:00

Avnet and Ingram Micro buck the downward trend, but Tech Data loses nearly eight percent.

0

Mac OS now bigger than Windows in smartphone market

4 December 2008, 11:12

As Apple becomes the third biggest smartphone company, its OS overtakes Windows Mobile in Q3 sales.

0

Global server shipments grew 4% in Q3

2 December 2008, 10:54

Volume growth comes at the expense of margin as revenue declines by five percent.

0

HEXUS.sharewatch: tech rally led by AMD

1 December 2008, 10:21

Following the recent slump tech stocks have rallied in the past week, with AMD the biggest percentage gainer.

0

DSGi adds to retail gloom with announcement of £30 million loss

27 November 2008, 14:11

Owner of PC World and Currys blames tough trading environment and restructuring charges for loss.

22

How much use is a brief, small VAT reduction?

25 November 2008, 17:57

The latest government measure to reduce the severity of a recession is to reduce VAT for a year, but who does that help?

10

HP revenue up on improved notebook sales and EDS acquisition

25 November 2008, 13:30

Giant system builder provides a welcome ray of sunshine to the tech sector with healthy quarterlies.

0

HEXUS.sharewatch: tech stocks struggle

25 November 2008, 10:44

AMD, NVIDIA, Dell and the disties are among the losers in the continuing economic turmoil.

0

HEXUS.sharewatch: Chinese stimulus package boosts shares

10 November 2008, 10:51

Chinese government to spend an extra £400 billion on public projects and social welfare in bid to stimulate growth.

0

NVIDIA sees quarterly profits plummet but still beat expectations

7 November 2008, 09:54

Graphics giant sees profits drop to a quarter of their level of a year ago but shares were still up in after hours trading

0

Bank of England shocks with massive 1.5% cut in interest rates

6 November 2008, 12:36

The Bank of England has announced the biggest single cut in interest rates in a generation.

17

HEXUS.sharewatch post-election special

5 November 2008, 21:50

After the expected Obama victory in the US Presidential elections, US stock markets suffered significant falls.

0

CBI calls for full one percent interest rate cut

5 November 2008, 15:45

UK business organisation says Bank of England should chop 1% off interest rates to boost flagging economy.

0

HEXUS.sharewatch pre-election special

4 November 2008, 23:03

A quick look at share prices immediately before the US election results come in.

1

HEXUS.sharewatch: AMD rallies, Microsoft doesn’t

3 November 2008, 10:43

Everyone on our list has seen their shares gain value in the last few days, except Microsoft.

0

HEXUS.ratewatch: US axes interest rates again

29 October 2008, 18:50

The GBP/USD exchange rate has strengthened in the pound’s favour as the US fed cuts another 0.5% off interest rates.

0

Jon Peddie Research reveals booming GPU market

28 October 2008, 18:08

Graphics industry watcher reveals year-on-year increase of 22.5 percent in global GPU market.

0

How does the weakening pound affect UK technology prices?

27 October 2008, 19:06

The pound has plummeted against the dollar and prices are set to rise. We ask Scan director Elan Raja what this means for consumers.

6

HEXUS.sharewatch: AMD plunges to 17 year low

27 October 2008, 11:09

AMD’s shares have been taking even more of a pummelling than the rest of the market in the past five days.

5

HEXUS.sharewatch: Apple profit beats expectations thanks to iPhone

22 October 2008, 11:07

The quarterly earnings announcements are coming thick and fast with a mixture of gloom and encouragement.

0

Netbooks fuel 40% notebook growth in UK

17 October 2008, 17:22

IDC’s preliminary Q3 results reveal healthy growth in PC sales in spite of the macroeconomic turmoil.

2

HEXUS.sharewatch: Apple bucks the trend

13 October 2008, 11:30

Amid the unremitting stock market gloom of last week Apple’s share price shows a surprise increase.

3

Breaking news: world’s central banks cut interest rates

8 October 2008, 12:53

UK, US, and Europe all cut interest rates by half a percent in a coordinated move.

5

UK bailout unveiled, markets unimpressed

8 October 2008, 10:25

The government has announced a £500 billion bailout package for UK banks but the FTSE 100 has lost more ground this morning.

16

HEXUS.sharewatch: NVIDIA down, AMD up

6 October 2008, 10:48

There has been no bounce in the immediate aftermath of the US bailout being approved.

1

US Congressmen fiddle while Wall Street burns

29 September 2008, 23:10

Shockwaves emanate from rejection of bailout plan by House of Representatives.

3

HEXUS.sharewatch: Bailout bounce short lived

29 September 2008, 10:11

Many of the gains that greeted the announcement of the US bailout plan have disappeared, but not all.

0

Bank of England offers help for quarter-end

26 September 2008, 10:05

As talks on the big US bailout stall, UK, US and European banks move to inject liquidity into the financial system.

0

US government bailout – is this the start of the recovery?

19 September 2008, 22:33

American taxpayer to mop up billions of dollars of bad debts, global stock markets rise steeply on the news.

16

HEXUS.sharewatch special: finance sector meltdown

18 September 2008, 15:54

AMD, Apple, Dell and Microsoft all drop by over ten percent.

1

HEXUS.sharewatch: NVIDIA takes another kicking

15 September 2008, 09:24

A class action suit over its die/packaging crisis will have further dented investor confidence in NVIDIA.

1